“What is going on here?” you might be asking yourself. “Where the hell am I?” Both are perfectly valid questions, and both among the first to come to mind when I wake up each morning, irrespective of the answers.
This blog is a corollary to My Divine Comedy. Yes, I’m Rick (still), and currently settling in to the D.C. area to begin a five-week internship doing International Affairs for a rockin’ agency. At the end of that five weeks, I’ll be:
1) In Florida for a few days to be with my mother, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
2) Home for about two weeks to pack and make last minute preparations.
& 3) Leaving for India on July 14th.
It’s the final reason here, really, that has led me to establish a linked but distinctly separate space, to write about the adventures I’m sure to stumble upon in my time at the other end of the earth. I will be in India until the beginning of December, and then I’m not quite sure where the world will take me. I have over a month until I have to return to school in the States for my final semester. So who knows?
The moniker and name of this blog are inspired by the fact that I will, in fact, be touching down in Delhi in the fierce middle of monsoon season, a fact that both tittilates and terrifies me. You see, I’m an asthmatic, and the two things that trigger my particular brand of chronic lung deficiency are heat and humidity. Do you know what monsoon season is? One-twenty Fahrenheit and all-rain, all-the-time.
This blog will be a heartwarming account of the treacheries I overcome in order to achieve survival. That is, of course, if I achieve survival.
